We are all familiar with the way the left wages its political wars. If someone happens to disagree with its position on racial issues â€“if one believes, for example, that government enforced racial preferences are misguided or immoral â€“the left will denounce that person as a â€œracist.â€ In our culture, this is the moral equivalent of a bullet in the head. If the president of Harvard cites scientific data that women have different aptitudes for mathematics (lower) and verbal subjects (higher) than men, the left will denounce him as a â€œsexist,â€ another cultural bullet in the head. If a person believes that children should not be instructed about sex in public schools at the kindergarten level, the left will denounce her as a â€œhomophobeâ€ â€“ one more mortal blow.

And, so, if students attempt to discuss the holy war that Muslim fascists have declared against the West, the left can be expected to denounce them as Islamophobes, and bigots too. To make the point, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee will send threatening letters to 100 university presidents across the country urging them to deny a platform to students who are practicing â€œhate speech.â€ And liberal TV anchors will defend the witch-hunt.

Here is an excerpt from an exchange that took place between FoxNews Channel anchor Alan Colmes and myself, over my efforts to organize Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week:

Alan Colmes: â€œThe words, the phrase â€˜Islamo-fascismâ€™ is hate speech. It equates an entire religion with fascism. Thatâ€™s what people object to. It conflates the two, and itâ€™s wrong.â€ In other words, students canâ€™t even hold a discussion about â€œIslamo-Fascismâ€ because the idea itself is hateful, is forbidden.

This argument clearly doesnâ€™t make sense. Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week is explicitly designed to raise public awareness about the oppression of Muslim women by Islamic radicals who abuse them. How can that be equating all Muslims with oppressors? The term â€œIslamo-Fascismâ€ was itself coined by moderate Muslims in Algeria who were being slaughtered in the tens of thousands by Islamic radicals bent on jihad. How does using a term invented by Muslims to describe their oppressors equate all Muslims with the fascists?